Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COUN-TER-DRAW', v.t. [counter and draw.]

In painting, to copy a design or painting, by means of a fine linen cloth, an oiled paper, or other transparent matter, whereon the strokes appearing through, they are traced with a pencil. The same is done on glass, and with frames or nets divided into squares with silk or thread, or by means of instruments, as the parallelogram. – Encyc.